SHOKI

10 hours ago, nekkichi said:

so it's a printing/distribution issue?

explains why Deg went digital-only for their next sangle

Probably, KAMIJO already had issues with Persona Grata's distribution recently, so he probably realized the same would happen to these releases.

On 4/24/2020 at 1:12 PM, Axius said:

This guy has officially won best visual kei look ever for me

New costumes and MV are looking ridiculously beautiful!

6 hours ago, secret_no_03 said:

I'm sure she'll make him look like Alucard lol

Well, she won't have to work too much on that to be honest 🤣

@inertia Thanks for sharing those memories on that beautiful experience. I always thought KAMIJO looked ridiculously thin (even more than usual) during that late LAREINE-NEW SODMY period, and I also had read about some of his part-time jobs at the time, but I never imagined things were really that bad for them. Makes everything they did even more impressive and makes me respect KAMIJO's passion even more than I already did. His love and the efforts he made to keep the band alive are more than admirable! I would love to hear more stories, since I sadly got to know them too late, and those details I missed make me appreciate them even more and more.

@Cantavanda Same thing goes for the info on the LAREINE fansite you are working on, I can't wait to see it finished!

On 7/6/2018 at 6:38 PM, ajisaii052 said:

Now I am confused. Rin (his) is a man (?)

Welcome to the magical realm of visual kei~

Previews sound amazing. I wonder if figuring out which song will be in which album is just a strategy to confuse fans and have them buying every version and maybe buying one of them more than once by mistake.

On 15/4/2018 at 11:52 PM, Akrus said:

Its in the tracklist!

I'm so happy! Can't wait for this!

Hope this will be as good as -OZ Rebellion- was. I'm glad to know Nico is still part of the band (kinda) and that will take part on the album. Didn't she get a voice acting job or something like that? That could explain her lack of time for the band.

On 12/2/2018 at 11:28 AM, Peace Heavy mk II said:

I saw that too. It seems like his recent strategy is to release the full music video on YouTube, but have a bunch of text over it in low quality (this isn't uncommon, as far as I know) like he did for Castrato and Mademoiselle. Not sure why Nosf in particular is the ugly step child of this album :S 

Yeah, now that you mention it I have seen other artists doing that before: full video on YouTube but with ads of the album/single all over it. Maybe it works for getting views? Nosferatu was probably chosen because it was already released as a single, like Castrato and mademoiselle were. Just my personal opinion here, but I loved Nosferatu and was very hyped for its release, but now I hate how the studio version sounds in the single. It gives me that pop-mix vibes some people got from Moulin Rouge before, muffled down drums and guitars, vocals too loud, etc. 

On 30/1/2018 at 3:55 PM, Peace Heavy mk II said:

I guess Notsferatwho??? just isn't getting  a PV or attention ever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nosferatu is getting a PV

It's listed on the Blu Ray/DVD for Sang. I don't know if the late release of PV's (happened with Castrato too didn't it?) is something done intentionally or just a badly organized schedule (it kinda makes them not Promotional Videos anymore, technically at least)

Very sad news indeed. Hope his health gets better.

On 16/12/2016 at 7:21 AM, Danao said:

Versailles is back, do a world tour, release an album with the same song played over and over  and rick roll everyone (should I call it versailles roll ?)

Does KAMIJO's Nosferatu count? I love the song but the tracklist still looks hilarious to me.

Damn is a shame is mailorder/live-venue only, she really needs to be more widely known.

Previews sound amazing.

On 18/1/2018 at 5:10 PM, Peace Heavy mk II said:

I believe G*ckt as did work with v*cal*ids at one point, so this isn't a first.

Yeah they made one using his voice (which ironically sounds nice singing enka) and then he re-recorded a song made for it.
So, yeah, it could be way worst than this "colaboration"

KAMIJO will make a couple of appareances at Miku's Vampire fest event:

• Fanmeeting and Handshake: Starting at 7:30pm JST on January 16th, 2018 (opening day for this collaboration)
• Autograph session: Starting at  6:30pm JST on January 30th, 2018. (Note: You can only attend this event by purchasing KAMIJO goods/CDs earlier in the collaboration. Once you buy those goods, a numbered ticket will be given to you for this autograph session. A bonus postcard will also be given out to be used for autographs.) [There is a limited amount of numbered tickets].

Amazing news! I'm hoping we get 此処に時が在るなら on this album.

I loved EPOCALIPSE so as long as he stays in that style I'm probably going to love this too. I agree with Elazmus though, his guturals don't sound that good this time, they even remind me of very early Rentrer en Soi's. Not a big fan of the video either, so I will pretend it doesn't exist, like I did with BERSEKER's and REVELATION's

Not a fan of Miku's "singing" at all, but as long as he is composing, it probably will be worth listening (hope we get an instrumental version of it).

On the bright side, the art on the trailer looks really nice, and this will also mean new fans and more sales for him. A smart move, in my opinion.

Really surprised by this, I expected something totally different, similar to Castrato's cover art. Wonder what's exactly the idea behind it.

Nosferatu's tracklist really looks like a cheap attempt to milk the song as much as he can, but I also agree with Peace Heavy mk II and I'd rather have him saving the new songs for Sang to avoid another 2012's Versailles.

I wonder if people will skip the single assuming Nosferatu will be in Sang.

20 hours ago, jaymee said:

Ah, sorry, I thought you were talking about lives that haven't been shared on YouTube. But thank you for replying! I don't think I have the last live audio, but I'll check around here first. ^^

I'm especially looking for Gackt-era bootleg vids, but these are harder to find since up until the late 80s to mid-90s it was still ok to take videos at concerts and fans would trade them, but later music venues started cracking down on the practice.

Sorry! I'm not sure if I have ever seen a Gackt era bootleg vid, since like you said around that time bands started getting picky with that. If I ever have the luck and find any footage of those concerts I'll let you now. Send me a DM or quote me here again if you can't find the Last Live audio so I can upload it for you!

On 1/11/2017 at 9:03 AM, jaymee said:

Are there places where bootleg MM lives have been uploaded? Back in the day an old friend of mine had a few TV live appearances, but we could never seem to get a hold of anything bootlegged past random concert clips. Would love to see some of those. D:

You can find most them easily, with some of them even on YouTube itself:

For example: Tetsu era live, Tetsu's Last Live, Early Gackt era Live (audio only), 

There's also audio recordings of another Tetsu era live (Cher de memoire I) and two lives from Klaha era (Gardenia tour and their Last live)

I imagine those probably have been uploaded here at some point but, if you can't find any working link, let me know and I'll upload them for you.

These are the ones that come to my head at the moment

NEW SODMY

mousouko (there is only a small clip of it in the TOUR CAT WALK 2002 -Documents- VHS, and a transcription of its lyrics, but it remains unrecorded), 

Frame (only played live, unrecorded), 

DALA (you can hear it in the LAST LIE live VHS but there never was a proper recording).

MALICE MIZER

16のソリチュード (16 no SOLITUDE), 

Freeze me, 

Portugal, 

白昼のワルツ (Hakuchuu no WALTZ), 

前兆  (Zenchou's vocal version),

魅惑のタンゴ (Miwaku no TANGO),

You can hear them in several bootleg recordings from their lives.

E'm~grief~

Rita and Cecir were supposedly working on new songs some time after their hiatus, but with Yuuze's death and Rita leaving the scene I guess any chance of getting to hear them are pretty much dead too.

Amazing previews! Can't wait to hear Clockwork Reverse and Constellation's full versions. Again, excellent job, and thanks for your advice, I'll do my best on my little musical experiments until I get something worth sharing.